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These "backstage" views are among the 900 slides which Mitch Deutsch and Ray Spurlin, Georgia Tech architecture students, took and processed at their own expense in December, 1974, to document the Fox Theatre in the face of impending demolition. The theatre, then a movie house, shut down on January 2, 1975 and was closed for six months before being rescued by Atlanta Landmarks, Inc.

Projection room, showing the two 35MM projectors (left) and and two Genarco Metro-Lite front lights, right.

Projection room, showing the Brenograph and and partly shown on the far left, the original Hall and Connolly "HC" high intensity front light.

Rear auditorium canopy, showing ceiling cove striplights and the remnants of the "Sunrise" effect. Strips were circuited in blue and deep blue.

Gridloft, from the headblock beam, showing two double-sheave loft blocks for the light bridge.

Broadcast Studio, 6th floor, and 7th floor Broadcast Control room, above. The walls and ceiling were entirely coated with soft, pliable asbestos.

Dressing room, 2nd floor.

Stage Manager's Desk, stage right, showing top left the Peter Clark "Cut This Rope" sign and the dressing room annunciator panel, right. Below are the Peter Clark controls for (L to R) the Movietone lift, orchestra pit lift, organ lift, act lift, and the Magnascope picture sheet masking control.

Hub Electric stage lighting switchboard, in the off position, except for the illuminated pilot light, second row far left, indicating that the independent "Orchestra Stand Lights" circuit is activated and supplying juice to the ghost light.

Hub Switchboard, profile view.

Peter Clark locking rail, stage right, and seen to the far right of the fifty linesets is the "niggerhead" muling winch. Center, the control box for the upstage and downstage chorus lifts.

Back wall of stage, stage left, showing a row of stage braces arranged by height, above the stair to the basement cross-under.

Stage, upstage left corner, showing the stage left loading door, one of the three Altec A-1 horns, partly concealed by a platform. Above are the baggage doors to the Shrine dressing rooms, also served by an elevator, and in the foreground are the traps for the cyc footlights.

Power Room, basement, showing the 6000-amp motorized circuit breaker to the left and a partial view of the main switchgear.

Power Room switchgear, full view, courtesy Hal Doby.

Sub-basement boiler room, theatre section, showing the two Kewanne boilers, #1 coal-fired and #2 gas.

Sub-basement boiler room, Shrine section, showing the long-abandoned boiler #3 (left) and to the right, the base of the Shrine chimney.

Sub-basement boiler room, Shrine section, service elevator up to street and Egyptian Ballroom.

Charles Walker, chief volunteer and touch-up painter.

"The Fox Theatre is Dead," January 3, 1975, Atlanta Constitution.

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